Citrix XenApp vs 2012 Terminal Server

[Nikumba]

We currently have a XenApp 6.0 farm running with office, few other bits published on it but we are moving from published apps over to published desktops.

Now the question has been asked now we are using publish desktops why do we need to keep XenApp, and for the life of me I can not think of a good reason why considering the yearly costs associated with running a Citrix and a Citrix XenApp farms, plus support contracts etc.

The XenApp is on VMware and we run 10 servers with about 100 users in total on them, the Citrix servers are 15 but they run Sage.

So what are peoples thoughts on ditching XenApp for Windows Terminal Services?

Thanks

Dave

 

[DRZ]

It isn't entirely clear from your post - are you moving to XenDesktop instead of XenApp or as well as XenApp?

If all of your users have a virtual desktop and they then use those desktops to access resources directly then do you really need either of XenApp or RDS (RemoteApp presumably?). If you are using the XenDesktop VDs to then access "remote" resources, XenApp might well tie in together a bit more nicely than RDS will, although at your scale it doesn't really matter.

We are binning RDS and moving entirely to XenDesktop and XenApp - those resources that work best in a desktop-type environment (like Office, for example) are local to the desktop and our ERP apps that work best in an RDS-type environment are published into the desktops as XenApp icons.

Why you'd want a virtual desktop per-user solely to access a published application is completely beyond me though!